The comic book will feature over 40 pages illustrating some of World/Inferno's craziest road stories with an included 7" record featuring three new songs from the band on Merlot colored vinyl.

Slated for a Winter 2012 release, the title is available now for pre-order from the Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club. Pre-orders for the record will be shipped with an exclusive full-color print of the band illustrated and painted by Mitch and Amanda.

I saw this story on facebook which meant was no title (just the content). The first line I read was "Cartoonist Mitch Clem, of Nothing Nice To Say and My Stupid Life fame..." and immediately though that because he hadn't updated his webcomic in a while, he had died.

People throw around the phrase "I hope ____ gets cancer" quite frivolously these days, and I personally find it to be a completely tasteless and insensitive comment. Having had cancer myself - albeit a relatively minor type, though one which still required surgery and a painful recuperation process - I have a small but informed perspective of the suffering involved, and thus I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. Nevertheless, there's a very, very, very small list of people who I would immediately exclude from such basic humanity and wish nothing but the harshest retributive agony upon...wish for nothing more than to watch them writhe within the clutch of a torture so great that the crippling physical anguish is surpassed only by the unbearable mental torment that comes from watching your own wretched body, life and spirit deteriorate before your very eyes. Mitch Clem is on that list.

I've discussed my reasons before and I don't enjoy repeating myself. Truly, the only motivation I had for even posting is the vain hope that Mr. Clem himself may possibly read this and my boundless frustrations will be partially vindicated. Should he desire to actually discuss this with me personally rather than continue to hide behind his veil of delusion, it's not hard to figure out my Gmail address.

Whatâ??s wrong with Skibz?
Here is my guess: Skibz imagined a fantasy world where Clem is up on some pedestal, and this is such a tormenting fantasy that Skibz has to act out in "real life" by saying shitty things on message boards.
Anyone else have a guess?
Itâ??s probably something way dumber and more obvious but I donâ??t have much experience dealing with sociopaths.

I think most of us know your deal by now. You're a very witty and well-spoken contrarian who has a very specific point-of-view. You always manage to one-up your dissenters with (mostly) valid points and your persistence is pretty impressive. That being said, you have to be one of the saddest human beings on this fucking planet. How lonely and insecure do you have to be to CONSTANTLY ramble on about complete fucking bullshit when it's completely obvious that 90% of the people on this site can't stand you. What are you trying to prove? Who are you trying to prove it to? And most importantly, WHY are you trying to prove it? What do you get out of these asinine rants? If you think your perspective is so unique, why are you relegated to the fucking comments section of a website about punk music? I have this strange feeling that if they ever filmed a day in the life a Skibz, they should air that special between Hoarders and Intervention and TLC can market it as "Suicide Sundays! These people will depress the shit out of you!" Now please reply with a totally unrelated quip about my previous user history or a grammar error. Don't forget the snark!

Well I'm going to call a Skibz and call bullshit on that response. I made some points and I want you to speak to them (the same expectations you had for johngentile below.) Why do you feel the need to post these long (seemingly unimportant) rants on punknews? What kind of satisfaction do you get from them? How lonely are you?

Most of the time my rants are directly topical; the only times I can recall going off on long-winded heated tangents are when they relate to certain bands or genres of music. I've always expressed an extreme dislike of Mitch Clem whenever there's a story involving him; this just happens to be my most extreme...so far. My emotions run hot. I don't get any "satisfaction", I just post my opinions. Occasionally I'll post off-topic things, but for the most part, I just post what I'm feeling. It's not that deep. I really don't understand your questions.

Yeah but why get into it? What are your actual motivations? It's clear that many people are annoyed and sometimes enraged by what you say. We're not your audience. Many of us don't care. And if you do get us caring, it's because you said something offensive or so minor and insignificant that it actually IRRITATES people on why one would share such bullshit. I mean, these aren't tough questions. They're actually interesting ones. This is how someone occupies their time. It's fascinating to me.

It's not clear to me. To the best of my knowledge, only lukabratzi and Babrook are vocally annoyed with my posts. And I guess mikexdude and publichousing, but that's only when we talk about Communism. If people didn't care about my posts they wouldn't be consistently responding to them. It's a platform.

You have a point there. People love to hate your bullshit. This threads blowing up because of you. I guess I'm just being close minded in the sense that I can't fathom how someone enjoys this charade over and over again. I'm also not someone who posts regularly in message boards because I never keep up with them. But you're a different beast. You can't honestly say you don't try to get a rise out of people. It just seems kind of pathetic to me. Honestly, do you have many close friends? I can easily see how fucking horrible it would be to deal with your bullshit on a daily basis.

I'm certainly not enjoying it *now*. I can honestly say I didn't expect Roxy Epoxy to come on here and subtly call me a sociopath. I can safely say that's put a solid end to any future pseudo-trolling I'll be doing here, now and forever.

I'll most likely take a lengthy hiatus from posting here for quite some time after today. I'm sure lukabratzi is celebrating.

I am, this is the finest thing to happen to me in a long time. I get a new set of WIFS songs, a Mitch Clem comic, and a Skibzless existence for the foreseeable future. I have a fine cigar that I've been saving for just this situation.

On a side note, I think that if you've learned anything from this whole debacle it should be that my dislike of you is justified by your own actions and that if you didn't go out of your way to offend every person on this site then maybe we would all tolerate your existence.

You should be nicknamed "Snoopy the Narcissist" because you have a nasty habit of thrusting your doughy mug into conversations that don't concern you solely to stroke your massive ego, which is - implausibly, unbelievably and depressingly - somehow bigger than my own.

What? Just because I feel terrible over my fake hatred of one person doesn't mean I've given up my earnest dislike of another.

Again, you must see how warped you are. You are attempting to insult me when it is you who wished cancer on people and then asked for pity. You are doing this because you fail to acknowledge how despicable your actions were. Shifting the issue onto me doe snot change the horrible things you have said. Get help.

Again, you must see how warped you are. You are attempting to insult me when it is you who wished cancer on people and then asked for pity. You are doing this because you fail to acknowledge how despicable your actions were. Shifting the issue onto me doe snot change the horrible things you have said. Get help.

Your egotism just astounds me. It always has. Every single one of your posts is either condescending sarcasm or the most blatantly over-P.C. liberal nonsense I've had the displeasure of reading. People may call me a sociopath and even if that were true, I'm just glad I don't share the same personality traits as yourself. I honestly do. You are the *one* person on this site I pity, and that takes effort to achieve such within my twisted little mind.

Ah yes, very good. Again, you avoid the situation by attacking me instead of looking at your own actions and comments. Your refusal to acknowledge your situation and your requests for pity, pretty much sum up the situation. This is my last post in this thread. Hopefully, if you stop posting on the site, I'll never have to speak to you again.

There have been many times I've seriously considered sending you a friend request on Facebouzouk, but I decided it was better to keep PunkNews and the rest of my life separated entirely. Plus, since real-world Skibz is the polar opposite of Orgcore Skibz, I'm not really sure what the point would be.

I'm not really sure what I did to make you supposedly dislike me so much, but I can't say it's not amusing at times. Like an angry puppy you keep in a shoebox.

Kill yourself. I like Skibz and his borderline personality disorder. If everyone was stable and amenable this world would be even more boring and annoying than it already is. When you're in a homogenous subculture like punk it's the psychotic contrarians who keep things interesting.

Seriously, though. Was I rude to you at a show? Did I spill your beer or step on your foot or something? I know I can be socially inept like basically all the time, so it wouldn't surprise me. But I can't think of a time I've been so rude to someone that I'd earned cancer-oriented scorn. Yet you keep mentioning this being "personal," like it's not just that my comics aren't that good. So what did I do to you, seriously?

I'm sorry, man. I really am. I let it all go to my head this time. I have a reputation on this board for being a loudmouth with crazy opinions (and yes, that does stem from truth), and it-...it almost gives my words power or something and this time I just exaggerated it to asinine proportions. I'm really, really, sorry for the things I said. Honestly. If I could delete every one of my posts here, I would.

In all seriousness, if there's anything you want me to do that you feel would settle this matter, like, if you want me to buy some of your merch or something, I'll do it. I promise. I feel really bad about all this. Roxy Epoxy helped me see the light.

I did evaluate it. I did it within the context of my post. I have experience with the disease. Stop acting like a self-righteous cunt and don't stick your nose in places where it doesn't fucking belong. This is between me and Clem.

And I don't want your pissy bitchfit offsetting the tone of my post. I seriously understand and mean the weight of every single fucking word I just wrote, just like I have the last few times I wrote more or less the exact same thing relating to Mr. Clem.

You ignorant, self-righteous...if there was a word I could think of that's worse than "cunt", I would likely use it.

Never mind the fact that I obviously have, oh, I dunno, a *reason* and a *motivation* for disliking Mr. Clem, and let's completely forget the notion that this dislike could have escalated due to some other personal matter...no, Mr. John fucking Gentile, who's apparently an all-knowing and omnipresent being, knows best to take the high horse in this matter and speak down to people on matters he knows absolutely fucking nothing about. Bravo, bravo. We should just change the name of this site to Gentilenews.org since you think you're apparently the most important fucking thing in the universe.

If arguing that people shouldn't wish cancer on other people makes me "the most important thing in the universe" and "takes the high horse" I'll accept it. Frankly, I don't even need to respond to this. It's clear how far down a hole that you have dug yourself.

Regardless, Wishing anyone gets cancer is horrible, insensitive, and immature. You are unable to defend your position beyond that you dislike him. It is clear that you have not given full perspective on your words. You are acting out of shock value, or some other meaningless intent. At this point, you are only trying to convince yourself that your words are not despicable, horrible, and poorly conceived. this is the end of our conversation.

My words *aren't* "despicable", I justified my comment within my post. Shock value would have just been if I said "I hope this guy gets cancer" and just ended it there. I thought carefully about the wording of my post and I'm 100% satisfied with it and not planning in the least to back down from it.

...provided, if some evil wizard approached me and directly asked if I wanted to give Mr. Clem a terminal disease, then.....okay, fine, I wouldn't wish *death* upon him, but I would be *genuinely* fucking pleased if he did something like break a leg or lose a toe. I just want SOMETHING bad to happen to that insufferable prick, something which can just give me a *little* bit of pleasure in my empty, meaningless existence.

the fact that mitch clem did something to anger a despicable troll such as yourself to such a huge degree only makes me love him (and despise you) more. I look forward to your inevitable demise and wish the most horrible and painful types of suffering and misfortune upon you.

You are the only person on the planet so obnoxious that your shitty trolling could eclipse Chris Brown getting Rihanna's battered face tattooed on his neck. Please consume a platter of shot with a knife and fork.

Please don't call me a troll. I've posted about my dislike of and the many reasons behind my dislike of Mitch Clem thousands of times on this website. Just because I take issue with PunkNews' cartoon golden boy doesn't mean I'm only doing it to get a rise out of people. I have a genuine dislike of the man's work.

I think you may need to try meditation or going for a walk. If you seriously have an issue with a person that's not constructed in your head, it should be taken up with the person and not on a message board.

Granted I'm never on this site any more and it is a breeding ground for people making atrocious comments while hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. All it does for those who are being attacked is to allow us to build a thicker skin and watch you cry wolf.

As a side note, Mitch has never been anything but very kind to me. I only judge people on personal interaction. Even then, one should never be too quick to judge. In that sense, there is probably much more going on with you than any message board will let on.

Skibz' online persona has most of these:http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
Trying to have a conversation with him based on anything we'd consider logic or reason or understanding won't work.
Wasted to much time on his bullshit already, whoops...
POINT IS TURNSTILE #2 IS FUCKING RAD AND WE'RE STOKED AND THIS NUTJOB HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING
xoxo

Okay, I can clash head-to-head with Mitch himself, but it took a stern message from Roxy Epoxy to really cut me down to size.

*sigh*
I apologize for my comment. I only have a petty dislike of NNTS and yes, I'll admit I intentionally blew my dislike way out of the water to...ugh...okay, yes, I was trolling. Honestly, I rarely ever do it on this site, really, I don't, but this time it just felt like such an easy target: I mean, people LOVE Mitch Clem and I just don't like him all that much and.....yeah. Yes, I know, I'm a terrible, lonely, pathetic human. It was a horrible, terrible error in judgment and I promise I will never, EVER do it again.

I'm sorry. I really am. If I get banned for this thread, I'll admit I really deserve it this time. I'm sorry. :(

No, really, this time I do genuinely feel remorse for what I've said. I literally have that sinking feeling in my chest.

In all seriousness, you CAN delete this, right? If you can delete this, I promise I won't come back. You can even ban my account if you want. I really mean this. My face is literally bright f***ing red right now. :/

I know, I know. I crossed a line, and I don't ever admit that, though I dispute the "not just this time" part. This is by far the stupidest thing I've ever done here, and that's quite an achievement. I won't ever be able to atone for this, I'm fully aware. I will stop posting here after tonight, I promise. I know that seems like an unlikely promise, but I'll hold myself to it. Like I said, ban my account if you must.

But really, this CAN be deleted, right? I'd really, really, really prefer it be deleted. Likewise, I think it's best for the entire website if this crap is removed entirely.

John, don't kick the dog when he's down. When somebody veraciously expresses guilt, you don't stand on top of him and go, "That's right you motherfucker, say it again!" Well, at least that seems improper to me. Also I admit I like Skibz. He's really a wild piece of art, this guy. Where else are you gonna find an erudite ska/prog/troma loving anti-gay homosexual republican? You may hate that such a person exists, but I love that the persona is genuine. Skibz says this is the only time his intention was to be inflammatory, and I believe it. I realize many times he's had the position of dissent, towards which many other posters took offense, but it was his true opinion. And I believe that's... a good thing. I'm with Misanthropee on this one. See the post way way above.

Then I'll leave. Honestly, I'll just completely pack up and go. I left the site for a month after somebody called me a "sandwich", I can definitely go for longer after being publicly embarrassed like this.

Well, I've still got to stick around and at least *attempt* to do some damage control for the many absent posters who'll undoubtedly have some harsh words to say about this crap. I'd rather leave on people knowing I'm a total asshole who at least feels remorse for his assholishness rather and believe I'm a total asshole who doesn't.

I will admit to being mildly disappointed you resorted to such obvious trolling when the whole joy of your rants is that 99% of the time it's an insight into the odd workings of a mind I would otherwise find it impossible to imagine.

Oh please. I know a lot of people here hate him but you all are acting like some guy wishing cancer upon another is the worst thing that's ever been said here. Look back in the last month of posts and I'm sure you'll find plenty of people wishing death upon others, more than likely for the sole reason that they hate the others' "art." Anyone taking any of this *that* seriously needs to get off the internet. I fully believe that he feels really bad for saying the shit he did (I'm not excusing it). I'm sure Mitch doesn't even give a fuck anymore considering that he completely owned him this round.

Yeah, people wouldn't be offended if this were a Transplants tour post with a "Vanflip, lol" comment. I like Mitch's work, but this is FAR from the worst thing said on here and people are just reacting more because of their love for him. That doesn't make it right, of course, I'm just sayin' - if people are going to police the BuzzMedia internetz, they should at least be consistent.

I particularly like his tirade against John Gentile, where he tries to think of a more offensive, despicable word than "cunt", and claims he perfectly thought out every word in the original post, that he wasn't trolling, and that he had a genuine reason to dislike Mitch.

It really bothers me when people don't take me seriously. I mean, yes, obviously I'm a raving lunatic, but the vast majority of things I post are my genuine opinions and feelings, and when people outright call me a troll after I post something I actually meant, it hurts. It's something that's plagued me my entire life in both real-life and cyber life, though for two totally different reasons.

I figure if people were just going to belittle everything I wrote, I might as well try being provocative. Obviously, I'm not very good at it, if only because I immediately crumble into a sobby mess when someone calls me out on it. eazyd2 I am most certainly not.

I naturally assume moderators are reading this. If you'll remove an EchosMyron comment where he facetiously threatens to slit someone's throat, what the HELL is your reason for not removing ^this^? Please, please just delete it.

Dude. Get help. You're clearly mentally ill. I can imagine that there are plenty of counsellors out there who could go through whatever it is you feel the need to post here far better than anonymous internet people, and would actually want to as well. Find them and talk to them before you start mailing your own faeces to celebrities or whatever because if you can't realise how utterly ludicrous every single thing you have just posted is then that is exactly what's going to happen.

I got SO excited when I saw that 107 people commented on a Mitch Clem/Inferno thread! Turned out just to be another Skibz episode. Wonderful...But anyway, this is a match made in a heaven, already pre-ordered! December 11th couldn't come sooner.